Sneaton Yorkshire Family History Guide
Sneaton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Sneaton Thorpe.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1581
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1625
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Land Common to Eskdaleside and Ugglebarnby
- Eskdaleside
- Whitby
- Goathland
- Ugglebarnby
- Fylingdales
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
SNEATON, a parish, in the union of Whitby, liberty of Whitby-Strand, N. riding of York, 2¼ miles (S. by W.) from Whitby; containing 238 inhabitants.
The parish is bounded by the river Esk, and the scenery in the neighbourhood presents a succession of hills and dales. Very excellent flagstone is quarried. The Whitby and Pickering railway passes at the foot of the village.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £13. 12. 6., and has a net income of £170, arising from corn-rents assigned in commutation of tithes in 1802; it is at present in the gift of the family of Wilson, to whom, as an equivalent for building the church, two presentations were given by the crown.
The church, replacing an old edifice which had been for some time in a dilapidated state, was erected in 1825, at a cost of £720, by the late James Wilson, Esq.; it is a handsome structure in the decorated English style, with a low tower surmounted by a small spire, and the eastern end and the south porch are ornamented with buttresses terminating in richly-crocketed finials,
A free school was built by the late Mr. Wilson, who left £10 per annum for a master, to which the parish adds £5.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Whitby
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Cleveland
- Poor Law Union: Whitby
- Hundred: Whitby Strand
- Province: York